Love me some Grizzly, just ordered a band saw blade from them today. Went to the Tent Sale last year in MO. gate opened at 08:00 line started at 01:00, and by 08:00 was around the building. I was about the 50th person back. Scored a G0555LANV Bandsaw for $200.00 only had a scratch, scored a G0771 for $250.0, was only missing an $11.00 switch. They also had Dewalt there and other vendors with discounted offers. was well worth the drive to me from Mississippi.

Too mind boggling, I go there when in the area, look around, pick up a catalog and leave with money in my pocket. They do ship to Canada but shipping is expensive. They are putting Grizzly machines in the school here now.

Big boy/girl toys as far as the eye can see! Left some drool on a 8” jointer! The CAN$/US$ exchange rate ended that dream.

Too mind boggling, I go there when in the area, look around, pick up a catalog and leave with money in my pocket. They do ship to Canada but shipping is expensive. They are putting Grizzly machines in the school here now.

I live about 4 miles from the Grizzly store, and you are right—it is a treat to visit the show room. I remember when they started here, about 1984, I think (could be wrong). At that time, I remember them having only the 15” planer, a 6” jointer, and a drill press, I think. Maybe a TS too. The 1023 was their first cabinet saw, although they may have had their contractor’s saw around that time too. The 1023 was a clone of the Unisaw.

I eventually bought the 15” planer, and later some other tools, though my shop is by no means exclusively Grizzly.

I know several of the show room guys, and they are all really helpful. I bought a 13” Rockwell/Invicta planer off CL, at a really good price because the drive roller chain had broken, and shattered the gear cover. The cover was no big deal to weld up, but I couldn’t find the right chain, as it was metric. Finally took a sprocket into Grizzly, and one of the guys pulled the gear cover off so we could check my sprocket against their chain. Sure enough, it fit, so I was back in business.

Another time, I had bought a Grizzly 1.5 hp shaper off CL, but it didn’t come with a manual. I needed the manual because I needed to switch over from 120v. to 240 v operation, which was by no means something I could do without guidance. So “Smitty” went back into the office and printed a copy of the manual for me. No charge.

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Don’t get to used to it. We loved our world’s largest Grizzly store in Williamsport, but when the tax breaks left so did Grizzly. I miss it but also don’t like what they did by closing, and to their employees. Sad

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We loved our world’s largest Grizzly store in Williamsport, but when the tax breaks left so did Grizzly.

That’s why they left? That really stinks.

I flew my little airplane from CT to Williamsport to visit that showroom a few times. I often thought the large non-public warehouse almost collocated with the showroom and shopping mall a bit strange, but it seemed to work.

I’m not sure I would buy any machine, regardless of brand, sight unseen, so it was always an interesting trip.

A few of the machines were truly great bargains compared to competitors, but I was not impressed in-person with several that had great internet followings. What impressed me most was Grizz’s ability to offer a tool line that often offered a version sightly better than Harbor Freight, to a true-production level machine, and everything in-between. They have a unique way of hitting every price point in certain types of machine, to match nearly any budget or expectation.